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On this year's Edgar Guest Day<\/a>, observing the 130th birthday of Edgar Guest, K_Line Christian Online<\/a> is proud to reprint his immortal poem, Raisin Pie!<\/em><\/p><\/div>

Edgar Guest1<\/a><\/sup> (1881 – 1959)<\/p>\n

(Some people2<\/a><\/sup> consider raisin pie to be the high water mark in the American culinary arts. There is tasty recipe for old fashioned Raisin Pie<\/a> on this blOg.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Raisin Pie by Edgar Guest<\/h4>\n

THERE’S a heap of pent-up goodness in the yellow bantam corn,
\nAnd I sort o’ like to linger round a berry patch at morn;
\nOh, the Lord has set our table with a stock o’ things to eat
\nAn’ there’s just enough o’ bitter in the blend to cut the sweet,
\nBut I run the whole list over, an’ it seems somehow that I
\nFind the keenest sort o’ pleasure in a chunk o’ raisin pie.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are pies that start the water circulatin’ in the mouth;
\nThere are pies that wear the flavor of the warm an’ sunny south;
\nSome with oriental spices spur the drowsy appetite
\nAn’ just fill a fellow’s being with a thrill o’ real delight;
\nBut for downright solid goodness that comes drippin’ from the sky
\nThere is nothing quite the equal of a chunk o’ raisin pie.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m admittin’ tastes are diff’runt, I’m not settin’ up myself
\nAs the judge an’ final critic of the good things on the shelf.
\nI’m sort o’ payin’ tribute to a simple joy on earth,
\nSort o’ feebly testifyin’ to its lasting charm an’ worth,
\nAn’ I’ll hold to this conclusion till it comes my time to die,
\nThat there’s no dessert that’s finer than a chunk o’ raisin pie.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Edgar<\/a>
Edgar Guest<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a>Edgar Guest <\/strong>was born on August 20, 1881, in Birmingham, England. His family moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1891. Edgar began working, in 1895, as a copy boy for the Detroit Free Press. He worked there for almost sixty-five years.<\/p>\n

Guest broadcast a weekly program on NBC radio from 1931 to 1942. In 1951, he began “A Guest in Your Home” on NBC TV. Guest published more than twenty volumes of poetry. It is estimated that he wrote over 11,000 poems. Guest has been called “the poet of the people.” His poems usually portrayed a sentimental view of everyday life. He considered himself “a newspaper man who wrote verses.” Edgar Guest died on August 5, 1959.<\/p>\n

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  1. SOURCE: Poets.org<\/a> ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. e.g. Tom Truex ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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